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When choosing medications for pediatric patients, compliance is an important consideration, and, as any parent who has struggled with unpalatable formulations can attest, taste is an important determinant of compliance. These researchers conducted a simple taste test of 4 antimicrobials with 30 volunteer children ages 5 to 8 years.
Each participant was given 2.5 ml of cherry-flavored azithromycin, bubble-gum-flavored cefprozil, strawberry-flavored cefixime, and banana-flavored amoxicillin-clavulinic acid in random order. Children rated the taste on a 10-cm visual analog scale and were asked which liquid tasted best and which tasted worst. Cefixime was the most palatable, with a visual analog scale score of 8.53, followed by azithromycin (6.7…